HOLY SHIT!!

"Agrajag" (Agrajag) 08/25/2015 at 22:54 • Filed to: star trek

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Star Trek: The Next Generation is now in HD and 5.1 on Netflix.

Heavy breathing ensues.

I guess it’s time to watch the series for the umpteenth time.

Goggles Pizzano > Agrajag 08/25/2015 at 23:04

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Started to re-watch a couple of weeks ago. On Season 2. Really enjoying it.

In Hatland no HD, and sadly it looks like your gif on the FP of Oppo (buggered).

Eric @ opposite-lock.com > Agrajag 08/25/2015 at 23:05

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How?! What were they originally shot on?

Hot Takes Salesman > Agrajag 08/25/2015 at 23:10

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Patrick Stewart approves

whoarder is tellurium > Eric @ opposite-lock.com 08/25/2015 at 23:28

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The answer you seek is here

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt009245…

Agrajag > Eric @ opposite-lock.com 08/25/2015 at 23:30

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It was originally filmed on 35mm but all the effects(phasers and the likes) were done after it was converted to video and they had to be redone for the restoration.

Agrajag > Goggles Pizzano 08/25/2015 at 23:36

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Looks like this just happened a few days ago . I was just watching a random episode and thought to myself this looked really good.

Buggered gif is kind of ironic.

Street Surgeon > Agrajag 08/25/2015 at 23:53

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F*ck... I went through TOS, then TNG (which looked like some kinda damn VHS rips), and am now trudging through Voyager. HD and 5.1?!? Agh!

Eric @ opposite-lock.com > Agrajag 08/26/2015 at 00:04

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I'm not sure how I failed to realize that it was shot on film. If it had been shot using something else, they never could have done this. I'm excited.

Arpad Okay > Agrajag 08/26/2015 at 00:16

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I was gonna say...

Zuldim > Agrajag 08/26/2015 at 00:48

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Sweeeet. Been wanting to rewatch that lately, too.

a_blackpanther > Agrajag 08/26/2015 at 01:38

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Goddamit Netflix, get here already!

FrankN.Stein > Agrajag 08/26/2015 at 05:17

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Stapleface-Now Hyphenated! > Agrajag 08/26/2015 at 08:29

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Sweet. I’ll have to start watching again. I have like 5-6 series I’m in the middle of watching right now, and sometimes I won't watch one for two months, then binge watch 10 episodes in a day or something.

AdamL > Agrajag 08/26/2015 at 09:40

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Slightly off-topic in that I don’t think there’s a way to do this with Netflix...

Okay, this is going to sound like sacrilege - but sometimes, not all the time, but sometimes I use the zoom function to make the HD episodes full-screen, cropping out the top and bottom of the frame.

I know, I know - that’s not how they were meant to be seen. And in most cases it only takes a couple minutes for there to be a couple framing issues that get annoying and I give up on it.

BUT just after Leonard Nimoy died I watched the two-parter with Spock. For whatever reason, there were maybe only 2-3 scenes per episode where I switched back to 4:3 because people were being cut off. (Sidenote: Stephen Root plays a Klingon in those ones!)

Please note: This is not something I would normally advocate, but the novelty of seeing TNG widescreen is fun in small doses.

Agrajag > Stapleface-Now Hyphenated! 08/26/2015 at 09:51

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Make it so.

Agrajag > AdamL 08/26/2015 at 10:07

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I don’t know enough about film, but I wonder if a widescreen version exists somewhere since it was originally filmed on 35mm?

AdamL > Agrajag 08/26/2015 at 11:34

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Overly convoluted explanation: 35mm film is actually closer to 4:3 in aspect ratio but is usually cropped to 16:9, etc for cinema. When they shot Trek, they framed it for 4:3 regardless of what they could or couldn’t do with the film because they never imagined preparing it for 16:9. So no, widescreen doesn’t exist... except for intentionally cropping it.

Interestingly enough, there were a few shots filmed in “widescreen” for the purposes of later adding special effects. There’s an interesting articel about it here:

http://trekcore.com/blog/2013/04/t…

Agrajag > AdamL 08/26/2015 at 11:48

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Great article. Thanks!

surfinpenquin > AdamL 08/27/2015 at 15:46

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I’ve done this before too. VLC has a nice 16:9 crop setting. It is unfortunate that a 16:9 frame couldn’t be taken from the film without showing stage equipment like mics, cameras, etc.

Stapleface-Now Hyphenated! > Agrajag 09/03/2015 at 14:51

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Been watching some more since you posted this. The HD conversion is weird. It's like it doesn't start out at HD, but after about 10-15 seconds it converts. Then it goes to SD for the opening credits. And then once the show starts after the opening credits it switches back to HD. I'd love to know exactly what Netflix is doing here. Are they just upconverting on their end prior to the stream?

Agrajag > Stapleface-Now Hyphenated! 09/03/2015 at 15:12

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I think some of that comes down to internet speed. Mine takes a good 2-3 minutes to get to 720(my max) while where my brother lives he gets 1080 within a few seconds. I didn’t notice that about the credits though. Weird.